Registration

Registration fee NOK 600,- per day if you register before October 10. This includes lunch and coffee breaks. Additional cost for dinner on Tuesday October 30 NOK 300,- per person and on Wednesday October 31 NOK 700,- per person.

The fee/s must be paid upon arrival (at the National Centre for Optics, Vision and Eye Care’s Reception).

Any cancellations after October 10 will incur a fee to cover cost of admin and preordering costs of food/beverages.

11:15: The role of dry eye disease in the serious and complex ocular disorder aniridia.Erlend C. S. Landsend, Department of Ophthalmology, Oslo University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

14:00: Eye-fitness: a home-based rehabilitation program for people with central vision loss
Valeria Silvestri, National Centre of Services and Research for the Prevention of Blindness and Rehabilitation of Visually impaired, International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, IAPB Italia onlus, Rome, Italy

15:15: Considering the lived body and the lifeworld as tools for better understanding the meaning of assistive technology in everyday lifeInger Berndtsson, University of South-Eastern Norway, National Centre for Optics, Vision and Eye Care, Department of Optometry, Radiography and Lighting Design, Kongsberg, Norway and University of Gothenburg, Department of Education and Special Education, Sweden.

15:30: The effects of simulated cataracts on visuomotor performanceRachel O Coats, School of Psychology, University of Leeds, UK.

15:45: Status of refractive errors and binocular vision anomalies in new immigrants with residence permit in Kongsberg, Norway
Nickolai G. Nilsen, University of South-Eastern Norway, National Centre for Optics, Vision and Eye Care, Department of Optometry, Radiography and Lighting Design, Kongsberg, Norway.